Zoonotic parasitic diseases

I principali argomenti di ricerca del gruppo Vet 06 riguardano gli elminti degli animali domestici, i patogeni trasmessi da vettore zoonosici e i patogeni idrodiffusi, con un focus sull’epidemiologia, la diagnosi, gli aspetti clinici e il loro controllo.

• Donato Traversa, Professore Ordinario

• Angela Di Cesare, Professore Associato

• Simone Morelli, Ricercatore di tipo B

• Barbara Paoletti, Ricercatore

• Raffaella Iorio, Tecnico di laboratorio

• Roberto Bartolini, Tecnico di laboratorio

• Chiara Astuti, Dottoranda

• Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;

• Dipartimento MAPS, Università di Padova, Italia;

• Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Perugia, Italia;

• Multinational Drug Company (e.g. Boehringer Ingelheim, IDEXX, Klifovet, MSD, Zoetis)

1. Colombo M, Morelli S, Simonato G, Di Cesare A, Veronesi F, Frangipane di Regalbono A, Grassi L, Russi I, Tiscar PG, Morganti G, Hattab J, Rizzo V, Traversa D. Exposure to Major Vector-Borne Diseases in Dogs Subjected to Different Preventative Regimens in Endemic Areas of Italy. Pathogens. 2021 Apr 23;10(5):507. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10050507. PMID: 33922459; PMCID: PMC8146437.
2. Diakou A, Di Cesare A, Morelli S, Colombo M, Halos L, Simonato G, Tamvakis A, Beugnet F, Paoletti B, Traversa D. Endoparasites and vector-borne pathogens in dogs from Greek islands: Pathogen distribution and zoonotic implications. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 May 8;13(5):e0007003. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007003. PMID: 31067231; PMCID: PMC6527238.
3. Morelli S, Crisi PE, Di Cesare A, De Santis F, Barlaam A, Santoprete G, Parrinello C, Palermo S, Mancini P, Traversa D. Exposure of client-owned cats to zoonotic vector-borne pathogens: Clinic-pathological alterations and infection risk analysis. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis. 2019 Oct;66:101344. doi: 10.1016/j.cimid.2019.101344. Epub 2019 Aug 9. PMID: 31437677.
4. Morelli S, Colombo M, Traversa D, Iorio R, Paoletti B, Bartolini R, Barlaam A, Di Cesare A. Zoonotic intestinal helminthes diagnosed in a 6-year period (2015-2020) in privately owned dogs of sub-urban and urban areas of Italy. Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports. 2022 Apr;29:100689. doi: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2022.100689. Epub 2022 Jan 20. PMID: 35256130.
5. Morelli S, Diakou A, Frangipane di Regalbono A, Colombo M, Simonato G, Di Cesare A, Passarelli A, Pezzuto C, Tzitzoudi Z, Barlaam A, Beall M, Chandrashekar R, Pantchev N, Traversa D. Use of In-Clinic Diagnostic Kits for the Detection of Seropositivity to Leishmania infantum and Other Major Vector-Borne Pathogens in Healthy Dogs. Pathogens. 2023 May 11;12(5):696. doi: 10.3390/pathogens12050696. PMID: 37242366; PMCID: PMC10224148.
6. Morgan ER, Modry D, Paredes-Esquivel C, Foronda P, Traversa D. Angiostrongylosis in Animals and Humans in Europe. Pathogens. 2021 Sep 25;10(10):1236. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10101236. PMID: 34684185; PMCID: PMC8538298.
7. Simonato G, Cassini R, Morelli S, Di Cesare A, La Torre F, Marcer F, Traversa D, Pietrobelli M, Frangipane di Regalbono A. Contamination of Italian parks with canine helminth eggs and health risk perception of the public. Prev Vet Med. 2019 Nov 15;172:104788. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2019.104788. Epub 2019 Oct 5. PMID: 31627164.
8. Traversa D, Milillo P, Maggi R, Simonato G, Di Cesare A, Pezzuto C, Grillini M, Morelli S, Colombo M, Passarelli A, Grassano A, Serio P, Losurdo M, Brueckmann R. Seroexposure to Zoonotic Anaplasma and Borrelia in Dogs and Horses That Are in Contact with Vulnerable People in Italy. Pathogens. 2023 Mar 16;12(3):470. doi: 10.3390/pathogens12030470. PMID: 36986392; PMCID: PMC10054474.